Comments on: Thoughts About My Church’s Finances

By: Ian Bowman

Ian Bowman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:57:32 +0000

Ben, not only can I send you an accounting report, I can also send you the glowing testimony many satisfied receivers of my free services. Services were provided one inch at a time.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:14:26 +0000

Bag Lady, I do believe ALL donations should be non-tax deductible.
btw, how do you want people to call you? I really don’t like to call you “Admin”, and I don’t know if you want to keep anonymity or not.

Ian, of course I need to know your credit, before donating money. Can you send me an accounting report or something?

By: Ian Bowman

Ian Bowman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:27:18 +0000

“Third, when the non-religious organizations are giving to the society, they are doing things for love, and they are hoping the society to feedback with love.”

Ben, I am not a church. I represent a non-religious organization. Please send me $100. I will use it to get drunk with some hot chicks and hope that they feedback with love. Actually, normally they do. Thanks dude.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:59:39 +0000

Like your blog.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:11:54 +0000

As I said, you have your freedom to donate to the Red Cross and wherever else you support. However, you have to understand that donations only become tax deductible when you are eligible to itemize. Most people can’t itemize even when they donate hundreds to thousands of dollars because their standard deduction is more than their donations plus whatever else they can itemize. So for most people, donations are after tax money.

Next, as to non-religious organizations doing stuff out of love. That is pretty debatable because I am sure you can find non-profits with bizarre agendas you don’t agree with. I would say that more churches do things out of love, but I admit I am biased.

So should donations even be allowed as tax deductible? Well, I may write about that. Do you believe that all donations should be non-tax deductible? Or just donations to churches should be excluded?